I have been playing jungle for quite some time now, but I feel like I am being behind and not ganking much early game. My path is: red, blue, scuttle, gromp, wolves, chickens, raptors. and then look for opportunities to gank.
is there a better approach? should I gank more during that path?
It depends on the champion. Since I mainly JG WW my path is: say I start Blue side.
Red>wolves>Blue>Gromp>Baron Skuttle, This is where I look for a gank either top or mid if I have no gank I put pressure on mid by showing myself. then it's Dragon skuttle>golems>wolves>gromp and either gank or back.
but it all depends because say the enemy died at their blue I would do my basic clear, but once I kill my blue I head over to the enemy red buff and kill them there.
this is also the only path I take on WW. I see you like to play Hec so you can clear raptors earlier on as well. My suggestion is to take their raptors too and then gank a lane and push. Tax as much as you can and punish a laner you forced to back. Or if your laner backs push their lane out for them.
The thing about JG is if you just farm as long as your team doesn't constantly die to the enemy JG and force the enemy JG to waste time you can come out a head. I have had games where I have 2 items ahead of the enemy JG where I just farmed and they failed gank.
The best clears are adaptive to the game at hand. Always be on the lookout for a potential gank opportunities. Sometimes I will stop clearing the camp even if it's more than halfway finished if I see the enemy top hard engage, no flash, at our tower. At taht point I haul ass over there because every second counts
your path is good and i do the same, i never used to do scuttle after the buffs but it helps a lot to regain that extra bit of health before clearing the rest of the camps. my problem is always deciding when to back and shop. do you do it as soon as you have enough to activate your smite ability on champs or do you just farm and gank as long as you can and back when you have a couple thousand gold...
so many variables, it really depends on how the match is going. too many times tho i got greedy and end up dying with starting items and 2.5k gold in my bank. and THAT makes me feel really bad haha
